This was my solution as soon as they floated the ID thing. Said bye to my groups and uninstalled without a single look back.

This is actually what pisses me off with modern tech, we have soo much computing power that we have forgotten to properly optimize.

What used to be a software problem, writing code efficiently has turned into a hardware problem, with only one solution:

Throw more computing power at it.

I remember the og 2015 discord homepage said it was performant as a selling point

the random shit i remember lol

Enshittification. It seems to eventually come for every corporate, for-profit product...

It’s called VC funding

Resource management comes in many different flavors. Most computers allow you to use every resource it has at its disposal to accomplish a task (rendering graphics, processing workloads, gaming, etc), and that would really suck to have your system just decide it should nuke that process. It doesn't really know what you prioritize, so Instead it runs and compromises the best it can until the dam breaks. But gaming is a little less of a gray area, its nearly always the main focus of the user, so its easy to draw a line there.

There are systems that are far more opinionated about resource usage that will reign in processes. Like iOS is a good example (The divide is usually desktop and mobile OSs). It prioritizes UI, battery life, and animation fluidity over any process and will kill anything that threatens it.

There are applications out there you can use to limit resource usage per app, so you can limit the resources of bloated browser engines that masquerade as native apps.

I have still no idea why people say "go fluxer". This still has no federation, so appart from a few tricks, it’s no better than any preexistent solution. A lot of promises published at the right time earlier this year. But everyone can do that at the ai age..

Mumble is also ONLY voice chat. The problem is that Discord is so many useful things at the same time - text chat, voice chat, video chat, and game streaming, all integrated together seamlessly - that it's hard to move off of when you need a whole suite of applications to replace it.